Barack the Bear
Charles M. Blow, NYT
JULY 2, 2014
The president is growing hostile to being held hostage — both by the very insular nature of the presidency itself, and by the more stultifying intransigence of Congress.
During a walk a few weeks ago from the White House to the Interior Department, the president proclaimed, “The bear is loose.”
At a Minneapolis town hall last week, Obama said: “With Secret Service, I always tease them, I’m like a caged bear and sometimes I break loose.”
That, however, is the lighter side of things, the side in which the grizzly is merely grumpy because he’s feeling a bit stir-crazy.
(More here.)
JULY 2, 2014
The president is growing hostile to being held hostage — both by the very insular nature of the presidency itself, and by the more stultifying intransigence of Congress.
During a walk a few weeks ago from the White House to the Interior Department, the president proclaimed, “The bear is loose.”
At a Minneapolis town hall last week, Obama said: “With Secret Service, I always tease them, I’m like a caged bear and sometimes I break loose.”
That, however, is the lighter side of things, the side in which the grizzly is merely grumpy because he’s feeling a bit stir-crazy.
(More here.)
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